Among the cartographic offerings from James Dickinson this weekend you can find this superb town plan of Chester, the earliest one of the city, produced in Cologne by Braun and Hogenburg. Original hand colour. 1553. £775
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#chesterantiquesfair runs until 5:30pm Sunday at @chesterraces see penman-fairs.co.uk for tickets

Vlog 005: Chris Talks Everything Chester.
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Chris strolling around #Chester walls talking about the everythingchester.co.uk project.
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Hey, it’s the 8th of October 2017. I’m currently standing under the iconic Chester clock and that’s what I’m here to talk about today, my side hustle everythingchester.co.uk.
It’s just a little project I have been working on of evenings and weekends when I’m not in my day job. You can find out more about my role in #ecommerce in #vlog number 2.
I’ve actually got some notes with me today to keep me on track and a bit more concise. What I’m going to do is go for a walk while I talk so you can see some of the sites of Chester as well. I’m sure I will do a video just about Chester, but I thought I would kill two birds with one stone.
From the clock you can see the main street running through Chester. We’ll take a quick look the other side, there’s not that many people around today, the weather is not to good but there are a few #tourists having a little look around.
I came up the idea for #EverythingChester while cycling back from my role in ecommerce. I wanted to come up with some sort of #webproject that allowed users to query a #database, run searches and pull back some sort of valuable #information.
I wanted to pick something that was close to my heart and something that I was #passionate about, so I chose my home town of Chester. Although I backpacked when I finished my undergraduate degree with a couple of friends. We went around the #UK, and then I’ve interrailed around #Europe a couple of times and been to visit my brother in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Actually, you can find out more about that, the South Pacific in my first vlog. I think I actually talked about my brother and all of his projects more than about myself in that one.
Let’s consult my notes before I go widely off track. So I started the project in April. Like I said the idea was for it to be a #dynamic site, but it seems to be quite static at the moment.
I just started with #socialmedia at first. I started a #Twitter account in April of this year 2017. It’s now up to around 3,500 #followers.
I started an #Instagram account for it only a couple of months ago.